Cedar Point Announces New Water Ride for 2010 Season

I hear online petitions work. ;)

2nd hill capped off after winter apocalypse!

^Horay! Second time is the charm for the second hill!

@Little girls formerly known as crazy_horse and EvilChameleon09: Can't we just get along? FYI EC09, Those cannons are at Kings Island on their family raft ride, and there are a variety of cannons that shoot up water and then mist down on the riders, but the most effective one doesn't have as much pressure and has a lot more water and that one shoots up and completely SOAKS the riders. That is what crazy_horse is refering to. They are actually quite fun (when you're shooting) and its fun to yell at the shooters when you are on the ride.

I still don't see how it can hit someone directly smack dab in the face if the cannon shoots straight up into the air.
The laws of physics and water simply do not allow for what you are describing.

The ones I am talking about did NOT shoot directly up in the air. They shot directly into the boat.

I hope when Kings Island Redoes their children's area, they still keep the elephant on the Wild Thornberry's River Adventure. it didn't get anyone that wet, but it was a refreshing surprise.

I see no sane park owner signing off on something like that.
Unless of course, you have this mixed up with one of your RCT3 Soaked parks, in which there are cannons that do shoot horizontally. ;)

I think anyone who has seen the webcam the past couple of days has a newfound respect for those construction workers and steel erectors from Adena. That does not look like a fun job to have right now.

OK people... Crazy horse it talking about water guns that shoot out, not up. Me and EvilC are talking more of water bombs like at Kings Island. Its not that hard...

It looks like they have the first part of the first lift hill in place now, and are messing around by the drop again. Hopefully they will have the first hill done by months end!

I wonder if they are planning on throwing up those supports that were just brought out today or tomorrow. They have really been rolling lately.

^Probably tomorrow. ;)

I love the hussle from these construction guys, and in that weather to boot! I gotta tell you though, this ride might be a little more thrilling than everyone makes it out to be. I mean, that first hill looks like it is going to be pretty high....

They ARE on a roll! Looks like they are halfway up the first lift already!

It would be nice to have a time lapse video done from January 30th through the end of February, if they have the the first hill done by then.

:)

^That'd be awesome! It could happen.....

Wow, the first lift is almost done, they put up three supports and three pieces of the lift, TODAY! They really know how to move, especially comapred to the pace in late 2009... lol.

I'm still saying, that lift might actually give you quite a thrill, it loks really high from the webcam, and its actually going to be taller than SRF's drop.

Looks mighty interesting!!

Is it me or does that first lift hill look bowed?

Rapids 77-78 said:
Is it me or does that first lift hill look bowed?

Could be, but I think it's the camera. A lot of the straight lines don't appear as such on the web cam.

Rapids 77-78 said:
Is it me or does that first lift hill look bowed?

I'd been wondering the same thing. I've just assumed that it was an illusion, caused by the web cam, though.

The station "flume" looks wide enough to allow parallel loading areas, like the old Mill Race had.

Which reminds me of the time when I was working at CP (original STR), and my ride was down for some mechanical problem. They asked me to go help out at the Mill Race (water ride on the main midway for you younger folks). The diverter gate mechanism that sent the "logs" down one loading line or the other was not working and the gate had to be moved by hand. Yours truly, being a "guest" worker on the ride that day, was assigned to sit at the fork in the flumes and move the gate as the boats went by. Of course, the wave fronts from the logs coming down the hill all crested at that location. I left that day with more water in my shoes than in Lake Erie it seemed.